Never mind the Botox

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Princess Michael gets her brow smoothed. Kylie has her lips en truite . . . “Keep young and beautiful, if you want to be loved.” Go with the flow, put decrepitude and pity off as long as possible, take refuge in the surgeon’s knife. Bee-sting the lips, liposuck the thighs, staple the tummy, widen those eyes.

And why not? Is cosmetic surgery any morally worse, different in kind, than putting on lipstick and mascara? Wearing a push-up bra? Declining to put up with the face and figure God gave you, trying to pull the wool over others’ eyes? Today’s cosmetic surgery is yesterday’s